@ReikoX. You know how you have dropped the led intensity down? Will that slow the growth in 18/6 and will they still thrive as long as I feed them well enough and keep topping her?? This is the area of growing I've not read up about. I'd like to maybe grow a female keeper and take cuttings but I'm limited on space so the smaller I can keep it the better.

I'm feeling my way through this myself. I turned down the lights because they looked like they were getting light burned. I may even turn them down more. Previously I had the T5 in there and can keep these for around 6-9 months. With constant toppings. This area is roughly 2x2x2.

Last night I decided to give the mother plants a feed and a trimming. I may have gotten a little carried away with the Juanita mother. There are three that definitely need to be reset, Juanita la Lagrimosa, Adonis, and Grass Monkey. Next round of clones will be those.

The Zak Haze clone is slowly making its way to the screen. I can only assume that it is working on the root system. Ironically I noticed that the extra clone that I just threw in my old bag of recycled soil was still alive? It's been in there with no light for about a week now.

Made up a batch of soil today. I started out with 7.5 gallons of peat moss, 4.5 gallons of perlite, and 3 gallons of fresh EWC. To this I added 2.5 cups of dolomite lime. I set aside a couple gallons of this base mix for seedlings. Then added 2 cups bone meal and 1 cup blood meal, kelp, and greensand. Finally, I wet it down with two gallons of water with fulvic acid and reetha glycerine.

Speaking of pH, I went to calibrate my Blulab pen and the 7.0 calibration succeeded, but the 4.0 calibration said “err”. I keep the sponge wet with storage solution. Maybe I need to clean it? The dang thing is only nine months old

Place the pen with enough fresh KCL calibration/storage solution in a small cup to fully engulf the glass for ~24hrs or so. But, before that, cleaning the bulb doesn't hurt. I usually use wetted q-tips to remove any gunk / film from the bulb and the junction. The KCL solution should "measure" around 4, FWIW.

Place the pen with enough fresh KCL calibration/storage solution in a small cup to fully engulf the glass for ~24hrs or so. But, before that, cleaning the bulb doesn't hurt. I usually use wetted q-tips to remove any gunk / film from the bulb and the junction. The KCL solution should "measure" around 4, FWIW.